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Abstract
The characteristics and needs of homeless people, combined with the difficulties of designing and delivering accessible and effective services to members of this population, serve as a rich source of examples and applications for teaching generalist social work practice. Meeting the needs of homeless clients requires skills in advocacy, community coalition building, brokering services, and the development, coordination, and evaluation of service programs. The authors describe how a task-centered practice model can be applied to work with the homeless to illumniate the nature of generalist practice. In addition, this paper includes a discussion of possible examples from this population in the teaching of policy and research.